Sr. Specialist, Software Engineering

 The Opportunity 

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.  

• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.  

• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.  

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.  

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.  

Role Overview 

As a Full-Stack Engineer you will design, develop, and maintain software systems to build secure, efficient, and reliable software that meets business needs. You will collaborate with product, engineering and delivery teams to define functional and non-functional requirements and implement end-to-end solutions. You will regularly mentor peers, contribute to engineering standards and reusable patterns, working both independently as well as a part of a global team. 

What will you do in this role: 

• Develop and maintain complex applications and software configurations in collaboration with global cross-functional teams.  

• Regularly mentor colleagues, provide help with complex technical problems, defining engineering standards, and identifying reusable code and modules.  

• Create and document designs for custom full-stack software applications or components, spanning front-end, back-end, APIs, and data storage.  

• Use DevOps practices (e.g., Git, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring/observability) to automate delivery.  

• Build and integrate UI, APIs, and data solutions using the supported technology stack.  

• Elicit and refine requirements and apply software life cycle working practices and automation for software components and micro-services.   

• Contribute to the development of solution architectures in business, infrastructure, or functional areas.   

• Identify and evaluate alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.  

• Partner with global cross-functional teams to plan, execute and release in an Agile setup and deliver within matrix organization. 

 What should you have: 

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field  

• 7-11 years of hands-on experience working in full-stack development 

Primary skills (must-have)  : Python

• Web fundamentals: HTML, CSS, HTTP, REST APIs  

• Full-stack development: experience building web applications (front end, back end and data)  

• Frontend technologies like Angular, React  

• Strong in backend technologies like Java, .Net, Golang  

• Databases: SQL and relational database design (plus practical query optimisation)  

• Programming: proficiency in at least one major stack (TypeScript/Node/React, Java, Python or .NET)  

• AWS cloud: building and operating services on AWS, with sound security and compliance practices. DevOps: Git, CI/CD, containers (Docker) and infrastructure as code; strong observability mindset  

• Ways of working: Agile/Scrum, code reviews, test-driven development and strong stakeholder collaboration  

Secondary skills (nice to have)  

• AWS certifications and experience with cloud-native patterns (serverless, event-driven, microservices)  

• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks and secure data integrations   

• UX and design thinking exposure; accessibility and performance best practices (check for UX experience)  

• Experience working with globally distributed teams across time zones  

 Who we are:  

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.  

What we look for:  

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.